I recommend a good book to my brothers: "The Logic of the World".


Reading it feels like standing on a new platform to observe the world.
It won't tell you "which coin/stock to buy tomorrow."
But it forces you to think: the city I live in every day, the job I work, and the choices I make in consumption are all products of the competition between political and capital forces.
"The greatest talent of capital lies in its ability to create crises and then profit from them in new ways."
In an era of passive narrative acceptance, thinking itself is a form of resistance.
This is not a coincidence, but a systematic design.
Behind the repeated "seemingly accidental" economic shocks lies the reallocation and re-exploitation of capital towards space, resources, and labor.
Real estate bubble burst?
Financial collapse?
Mass unemployment?
——These have never been mistakes of the capital system, but rather its way of breathing.
This point of view is thought-provoking.
In everyday narratives, we are often instilled with the illusion that "crises are caused by individual factors," while Harvey reminds us that crises are the norm of capital and an inevitability within the order.
Cities are not neutral geographical spaces.
In Harvey's view, the city is far from being merely a population aggregation site; it is a battlefield for capital appreciation. He wrote:
"Urban space is a field for the self-reproduction of capital, a trench where domination and resistance clash."
Behind every towering skyscraper, every road built through demolition, and every surge in land prices, capital is rearranging the spatial order.
Housing has become a tool for speculation; public resources have gradually become the privilege of a few.
So, we gradually moved into the "mortgaged" city.
Harvey reminds us: to see space is to see power.
The first step to changing the world is to understand its logic.
Harvey is not a pessimist. He does not dwell on the pleasure of criticism, but continuously questions:
"If capital has the power to transform the world, why can't we?"
Recognizing how capital is laid out in the world means that we can also use another logic to rearrange it.
We can still be creators of history, rather than mere vassals of capital.
Let's encourage each other!
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